Organ Music on Radio

Prepared and presented on behalf of the Organ Music Society of Sydney
by Andrew Grahame.

"Colours of the King" which is presented on behalf of the Organ Music Society of Sydney continues from 5.00 - 6.00pm on the second Saturday of each month.

"The Theatre Organ" is presented at 6.30 - 7.00pm on the third Saturday of each month.

2MBS-FM now has web streaming. To tune in, log on to the station’s web page at www.2mbs.com. Follow the link in the lower left corner of the screen. Windows Media Player will open and streaming will commence. A high-speed broadband connection is desirable to avoid dropouts due to buffering. Alternatively you can access the broadcast directly via this link:

Theatre Organ MagicRadio Northern Beaches 2MWM-FM 88.7 and 90.3 is
presented by John Batts at 12 noon on the first Sunday of each month.

2008

Colours of the King 2MBS-FM 102.5MHz

SATURDAY

12th January

5.00 pm

Music for the Art-Harmonium, played by Joris Verdin
on instruments by Debain (1860) and Mustel (1920).

Bizet  Trois Esquisses

Rossini  Prelude Religieux from “Petite Messe Solennelle”

Boellmann  Two Offertoires from “Heures Mystique”

Guilmant  Scherzo (Op 31) and Priere e Berceuse (Op 27)

Mouquet  Suite Symphonique in B Flat Major

SATURDAY

19th January

6.30 pm

The Theatre Organ

An original suite composed by the distinguished American theatre organist Lee Erwin (1908  2000) for accompaniment of the Rudolph Valentino silent movie “The Eagle” in a screening in the early 1970’s at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre (Wurlitzer 4/19).

Overture

The Empress Waltzes

Incidental Music

The Eagle

Love Theme

- plus “One Alone” by Sigmund Romberg

SATURDAY

9th February

5.00 pm

Organ music of Louis Vierne

Impromptu Op 54 No 2 (played by Michael Dudman)

Berceuse Op 31 No 19 (played by Andrew Grahame)

Symphonie No 5 in A Op 47 (played by Frederick Hohman)

SATURDAY

16th February

6.30 pm

The Theatre Organ

Eric Coates  March “Calling All Workers” (Margaret Hall)

Listz  Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 (Reginald Foort)

Leroy Anderson  Belle of the Ball (Gerald Shaw)

Ketelbey  In a Monastery Garden (Jesse Crawford)

Smetana  Dance of the Comedians (Jonas Nordwall)

SATURDAY

8th March

5.00 pm

Music for Brass and Organ

The RAAF Brass Ensemble (cond. F.O. Matthew Shelley)

Amy Johansen (Organ) in concert in the Great Hall,
University of Sydney, on 21st November, 2004. (Recording engineer  Greg Ghavalas)

Richard Strauss  Fanfare der Stadt Wien

Widor  Salve fac populum tuum

Widor  Andante Sostenuto from “Symphony Gothique” Op. 70

Gabrieli  Canzon Septimi Toni a 8 from “Sacrae Symphoniae”

Crespo  Bruckner Etude

Handel  Sonata in F major

Vierne  Marche Triomphale du Centenaire de Napoleon 1

Howells  Master Tallis’ Testament

Mathias  Processional

SATURDAY

15th March

6.30 pm

Music from the 20th century stage

Gershwin  “Summertime” (Jean Martyn)

Kern  Symphonic Suite from “Showboat” (Jelani Eddington)

SATURDAY

12th April

5.00 pm

Bach on the Flentrop organ at Harvard played by John Ayer

Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 538 (Dorian)

Chorale preludes:

“Jesu, meine Freude” BWV 610

“O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross” BWV 622

“Christe, aller welt Trost” BWV 670

“An Wasserflüssen Babylon”

Prelude & Fugue in E minor BWV 548 (“Wedge”)

SATURDAY

19th April

6.30 pm

British Light Music of the 20th century

Clive Richardson  Melody on the move (Simon Gledhill)

Andrew Fenner  Gremlin in the Galley (David Shepherd)

Haydn Wood  Sketch of a Dandy (Simon Gledhill)

Billy Mayerl  Autumn Crocus (Simon Gledhill)

Bobby Pagan  Canyon Caballeron (Simon Gledhill)

Noel Coward  selection (Richard Hills)

SATURDAY

10th May

5.00 pm

Transcriptions for organ (including sounds of Sydney and Melbourne Town Hall organs, and Sydney Opera House Grand Organ)

Walton  Coronation March “Orb and Sceptre” (Thomas Heywood)

Saint-Saens  Adagio from Organ Symphony (Christian Brembeck)

Saint-Saëns  Danse Macabre (David Drury)

Richard Strauss  Feirlich Einzug (Christian Brembeck)

Debussy  Andante from String Quartet in G minor (David Hill)

Godard  Grand Galop de Concert (Robert Ampt and Amy Johansen)

SATURDAY

17th May

6.30 pm

Copland  “Hoedown” from ballet “Rodeo” (Walt Strony”

Fibich  Poeme (Chris Elliot)

J Strauss II  Nuns’ Chorus from “Casanova” (Phil Kelsall)

Grieg  The Last Spring (Lyn Larsen)

J Strauss II  Thunder and Lightning Polka (Simon Gledhill)

SATURDAY

14th June

5.00 pm

“Organic Shakespeare”  organ music and transcriptions for organ inspired by the works of William Shakespeare

(rebroadcast of items first heard in December 2004)

Simon Nieminski at the Wicks pipe/digital demonstration organ

Nicolai  Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor

Coleridge-Taylor  Othello Suite

Vaughan Williams  Greensleeves

Locke  movements from The Tempest (trans. S. Nieminski)

Walton  Three pieces from film score to Richard III

Mendelssohn  Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

SATURDAY

21th June

6.30 pm

Grainger  Shepherd’s Hey (Frederick Bayco)

Chopin  medley of piano works (Reginald Foort)

Quilter  Rosamunde and Fairy Frolic (Frederick Bayco)

Quilter  Will o’ the Wisp (Simon Gledhill)

Brahms  Waltz in A flat (Tony Fenelon)

Schubert  Marche Militaire (Frederic Bayco)

SATURDAY

12th July

5.00 pm

Recognising the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Smenge organ in the concert hall at Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. Items taken from an LP recorded by Michael Dudman shortly after the organ’s opening.

Buxtehude - Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C

Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G minor BWV 542

Bach  Gigue Fugue in G BWV 577

Boely  Andante Con Moto

Avison  Concerto in D Op 9 No 12 (trans. M. Dudman)

Vierne  Andantino from Pieces de Fantasie Op 51

Paine  Concert Variations on The Star Spangled Banner

Bossi  Giga

SATURDAY

19th July

6.30 pm

A classical organist playing a Wurlitzer, and some theatre/classical organ duets

Bach  Trio Sonata No 6 in G 1st movement (Carlo Curley)

Widor  Intermezzo from Symphony No 6 (Carlo Curley)

Schubert  Marche Militaire (Lyn Larsen and Carlo Curley)

Rossini  Overture to William Tell (Lyn Larsen and Carlo Curley)

SATURDAY

9th August

5.00 pm

Sounds of the restored organ in the chapel of the Convent of Mercy, Singleton  played by Brendon Lukin

Mozart  Andante for a Cylinder in a Small Clock K.616

Sweelinck  My young life hath an end

Brahms  A rose breaks into bloom

Haydn  Eight pieces for Musical Clock

Elgar  Vesper Voluntaries (Introduction and Andante)

Handel  Tunes for Clay’s Musical Clock

Buxtehude  Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161

SATURDAY

16th August

6.30 pm

Glinka  Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla (Simon Gledhill)

Sibelius  Finlandia (Jonas Nordwall)

Puccini  Musetta’s Waltz Song (Tony Fenelon)

Wagner  Ride of the Valkyries (David Whickerham)

SATURDAY

13th September

5.00 pm

Organ works of Georg Böhm (1661 – 1733) who is believed to have taught JS Bach. Christiaan Teeuwsen playing the Reil organ (1999) in the Bovenkirk, Kampen, The Netherlands.

2008 sees the 150th anniversary of the death, at age 24, of Julius Reubke. His monumental Sonata on 94th Psalm, which clearly shows the influence of his teacher Liszt, is a cornerstone of 19th century organ repertoire.

A concert recording made for 2MBS featuring Michael Deasey – formerly Organist and Choirmaster of St Andrew’s Cathedral Sydney and now Director of Music and Precentor at All Saints Anglican Cathedral, Bathurst.